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architecture and design magazineFri, 09 Dec 2016 14:43:53 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Adidas unveils toddler versions of Kanye West's Yeezy Boost 350https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/23/adidas-kanye-west-yeezy-boost-350-infant-trainers-child-version/
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/23/adidas-kanye-west-yeezy-boost-350-infant-trainers-child-version/#commentsTue, 23 Aug 2016 10:11:25 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=959816Sports brand Adidas is releasing child-size editions of the popular Yeezy Boost trainers designed by rapper Kanye West (+ slideshow). The Yeezy Boost 350 Infant is an almost perfect scale-down of the designs launched by Adidas and West in 2015. "Finally, infants and toddlers will be able to coordinate Yeezy looks with their style-forward parents," said

]]>Sports brand Adidas is releasing child-size editions of the popular Yeezy Boost trainers designed by rapper Kanye West (+ slideshow).

The Yeezy Boost 350 Infant is an almost perfect scale-down of the designs launched by Adidas and West in 2015.

"Finally, infants and toddlers will be able to coordinate Yeezy looks with their style-forward parents," said Adidas.

Like the original model, the shoe features a moccasin-type construction with a breathable, flexible upper made from Adidas' Primeknit material.

An entirely rubber outsole is designed to aid traction, and a suede overlay on the arch is intended to provide extra support.

The shoes will initially be available in two colour variations – white-and-grey Turtledove and darker Pirate Black – and six children's sizes.

They are set for global release on 27 August 2016, and will retail for $130 (£100). Reservations will be possible in advance at select Adidas retailers, for customers in the UK, Germany, Italy and the US using the Adidas Confirmed app.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/23/adidas-kanye-west-yeezy-boost-350-infant-trainers-child-version/feed/2IKEA responds to Kanye West collaboration requesthttps://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/02/ikea-responds-kanye-west-collaboration-offer-yeezy-bed/
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/02/ikea-responds-kanye-west-collaboration-offer-yeezy-bed/#commentsTue, 02 Aug 2016 18:24:35 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=947935IKEA has responded to US rapper Kanye West's request to collaborate, after he publicly declared his desire to work alongside the furniture giant. IKEA Australia posted a mock-up of what a collaboration between the two might look like on Facebook, following West's comments during a radio interview this week. The tongue-in-cheek flat-pack Yeezy beds could be connected together

"I have to work with IKEA – make furniture for interior design, for architecture," he said.

"Yo IKEA, allow Kanye to create, allow him to make this thing because you know what, I want a bed that he makes, I want a chair that he makes," he continued, explaining what he thought students wanting a Kanye-designed dorm room would say.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/02/ikea-responds-kanye-west-collaboration-offer-yeezy-bed/feed/20"Yo IKEA, allow Kanye to create" says Kanye Westhttps://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/01/kanye-west-ambition-design-furniture-range-ikea-interview-bbc-radio-1/
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/01/kanye-west-ambition-design-furniture-range-ikea-interview-bbc-radio-1/#commentsMon, 01 Aug 2016 20:19:56 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=947357Rapper Kanye West has declared his ambitions to design for IKEA and called for the Swedish company to collaborate with him on a furniture range. "I have to work with IKEA – make furniture for interior design, for architecture," said West during an interview with BBC Radio 1. He said students would want him to create "a Minimalist

]]>Rapper Kanye West has declared his ambitions to design for IKEA and called for the Swedish company to collaborate with him on a furniture range.

"I have to work with IKEA – make furniture for interior design, for architecture," said West during an interview with BBC Radio 1.

He said students would want him to create "a Minimalist apartment inside of a college dorm".

"Yo IKEA, allow Kanye to create, allow him to make this thing because you know what, I want a bed that he makes, I want a chair that he makes," he said, explaining what he thought students would say to the furniture brand.

West visited IKEA's headquarters in Amhult, Sweden, earlier this year, but the furniture company has so far declined to comment on any form of collaboration.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/01/kanye-west-ambition-design-furniture-range-ikea-interview-bbc-radio-1/feed/21Kanye West debuts first Adidas collection and Yeezy Boost trainerhttps://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/13/kanye-west-adidas-first-collection-yeezy-season-1-boost-trainer/
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/13/kanye-west-adidas-first-collection-yeezy-season-1-boost-trainer/#commentsFri, 13 Feb 2015 11:04:07 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=645910News: musician Kanye West has partnered with Adidas to produce Yeezy Season 1 – a collection of clothing and footwear that he described as the world's "first solutions-based" clothing line (+ slideshow). Kanye West's line for Adidas' Originals brand was unveiled at a show to mark the beginning of New York Fashion Week last night.

]]>News: musician Kanye West has partnered with Adidas to produce Yeezy Season 1 – a collection of clothing and footwear that he described as the world's "first solutions-based" clothing line (+ slideshow).

Kanye West's line for Adidas' Originals brand was unveiled at a show to mark the beginning of New York Fashion Week last night.

The Yeezy Season 1 collection included the Yeezy Boost – a limited-edition trainer-boot with the brand's unique bouncy sole technology that is released tomorrow.

The bumpy surface of the thick white Boost mid-sole is wrapped in a ribbed plastic sole, and the upper is made from grey suede, with a wide fabric strap across the front and lacing similar to the type used for hiking boots.

The full collection included further footwear designs. Woven low-top trainers were introduced for men, alongside suede stilettos and platform snow boots for women.

Adidas said that the pieces in the collection would create a wardrobe of essential pieces that would "absolve consumers of dressing's daily stress" by offering simple items that could be appropriate in a wide variety of situations and "freely combined in infinite ways".

"I don't want the clothes to be the life. I want the clothes to help the life," said West. "I wanted something that felt like New York or Paris or Tokyo or Santa Barbara or Chicago – a worldliness and an ease.”

West had aimed to produce "stripped-down, comfortable, and unpretentious clothes for a 'modern jet-set couple'," said Adidas.

The range of clothing was produced in a muted colour palette of flesh tones, combined with shades of bluish-grey, beige, muted greens, and many of the items shown had raw or distressed seams and hems.

"This is a challenge to where fashion is currently — a new feminine ideal," said West.

An injection of bright colour was provided by one fuchsia pink oversized t-shirt-style dress, worn by a model with the sleeves of another top tied loosely around her waist. A red-themed outfit featured a similar dress in burgundy, matched with maroon tights.

The menswear shared a similar silhouette, with oversized tops and fitted bottoms. Pieces include bomber-style and washed-cotton jackets, and oversized tracksuit bottoms and "perfect T-shirts". The men's pieces were designed to also be worn by women.

"A study in contrasts like street-luxury and vintage-new, the clothing shapes a new modern wardrobe," said Adidas.

The show itself was designed in collaboration with conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft. Guests were led in to a room with subdued lighting where models were arranged in nine lines. As each row stepped forward to show the clothes and shoes they were wearing, the lights were brightened to a level that Adidas described as "blinding intensity". The soundtrack included an unreleased song from West's next album.

West worked with Adidas' products team to design the collection. "They are a super innovative company that gives artists a platform to create and dream," he said.

Adidas launched the latest iteration of its Boost mid-sole technology last month, with the unveiling of the Ultra Boost trainer in New York.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/13/kanye-west-adidas-first-collection-yeezy-season-1-boost-trainer/feed/71Kanye West announces second film in interview about working with Rem Koolhaashttps://www.dezeen.com/2013/12/05/kanye-west-announces-second-film-in-interview-about-working-with-rem-koolhaas/
https://www.dezeen.com/2013/12/05/kanye-west-announces-second-film-in-interview-about-working-with-rem-koolhaas/#commentsThu, 05 Dec 2013 14:30:21 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=394908News: in this movie interview filmed for a documentary about Rem Koolhaas, rapper Kanye West talks about working with the architect's firm OMA on a seven-screen cinema to show his first film and reveals that he's working on a second movie. In the interview conducted by Koolhaas' son Tomas, director of the documentary, West also

In the interview conducted by Koolhaas' son Tomas, director of the documentary, West also talks about ambitions for his design company DONDA and says that "music has really been a Trojan Horse to create art again".

"I love Rem's work," said West while talking about how much he enjoyed working with the architect's company OMA in 2012. "I just like that fact that I was able to take my position as a musician, as a rapper and as a celebrity, and be able to invest in a project with a company of that level."

Seven-screen pavilion by OMA for Kanye West

OMA's pavilion design for West was a shaped like a pyramid and erected for the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and during the interview the rapper revealed that he has been producing a new film that builds on the immersive experience for the past year and a half: "I'm working on a film and I've created a seamless version. There were seven screens and they were separated, and the new one is seamless."

"When it happens and people see it, I think people will understand a bit better what I'm talking about or why I'm so frustrated," he added.

West also discussed his creative company DONDA, which he set up last year. At the moment he initiates and funds all the projects himself, but the 36-year-old hopes that this will shift so his company is commissioned to create for others within the next four years.

"I'm paying for a lot of the projects that I wanna work on, but it's like my own home [designed by Claudio Silvestrin], or a store design, or [the] pavilion I did with OMA," he said. "I believe, just to will this into fruition, that when I'm 40 [DONDA] will have to turn down projects."

"I've done basically everything I can do with the amount of finances I have," West continued. "If I go and think about a new form of film making and I go through the entire process, I end up funding the entire thing myself because it's too abstract of a concept for people to put a finger on."

"I went to college on an arts scholarship, I was the number one you know so music has really been a Trojan Horse to really create art again," he declared. "What do you think I spend the most time on when I'm creating a tour? The visuals. I am more of a visual artist and a product person."

Tomas Koolhaas is currently aiming to raise funds to complete his REM documentary on Kickstarter. The feature-length documentary will focus on how the architect's buildings are used by people and will "comprehensively explore the human conditions in and around Rem Koolhaas' buildings from a ground level perspective". Watch the trailer below: